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Any Baumslag-Solitar action on surfaces with a pseudo-Anosov element has a finite orbit

Dynamical Systems 2017-03-28 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We consider f,hf, h homeomorphims generating a faithful BS(1,n)BS(1,n)-action on a closed surface SS, that is, hfh1=fnh f h^{-1} = f^n, for some n2 n\geq 2. According to \cite{GL}, after replacing ff by a suitable iterate if necessary, we can assume that there exists a minimal set Λ\Lambda of the action, included in Fix(f)Fix(f). Here, we suppose that ff and hh are C1C^1 in neighbourhood of Λ\Lambda and any point xΛx\in\Lambda admits an hh-unstable manifold Wu(x)W^u(x). Using Bonatti's techniques, we prove that either there exists an integer NN such that Wu(x)W^u(x) is included in Fix(fN)Fix(f^N) or there is a lower bound for the norm of the differential of hh only depending on nn and the Riemannian metric on SS. Combining last statement with a result of \cite{AGX}, we show that any faithful action of BS(1,n)BS(1, n) on SS with hh a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism has a finite orbit. As a consequence, there is no faithful C1C^1-action of BS(1,n)BS(1, n) on the torus with hh an Anosov.

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@article{arxiv.1703.09037,
  title  = {Any Baumslag-Solitar action on surfaces with a pseudo-Anosov element has a finite orbit},
  author = {Nancy Guelman and Isabelle Liousse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09037},
  year   = {2017}
}